Salt Lake City Library

This building has a very functional horizontal and vertical circulation. This structure has the practical requirements of horizontal circulation system, for example: the circulation works in various directions not just one, the changes in levels is clear.
Also you can notice the different patrons that this building follows like: the approach. This Library has an oblique approach that gives an effect to perspective. This is a very useful recourse because give more illusion and fun to the space and invite to the people to circulate for this spaces. But also the building has a frontal approach for giving a balance to the spaces and those don’t be just a long line of perspective.
In Salt Lake City Library you can found a few forms in circulation. You have long corridors that work like bridges, stairways, halls in different type like oblique or straight and the different rooms that conforms the building.
The building has various nodes that converge in rooms or final of the halls.
This building has gardens around it and this outside communicate with the inside thanks to big doors and this is another example from circulation in this Library.

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